I'm sorry, I just don't buy any of that. If you accept a body parts based definition of your own womanhood, then you will, sorry to be blunt, simply never qualify as a "real" woman. More or less saying that it's "easier" to make a woman out of a man, than the reverse is also hypocritical of you. Not to mention insulting to all women who realize what it takes to live as a woman in this society.

I refuse to accept that my uterus is what defines me as a woman and not a man. Female yes, but this thing we call "woman" in society is a whole other animal. I especially refuse to accept your assertion that my uterus defines me as a woman and there is no way around that, but your lack of a uterus and other "essential" female body parts doesn't disqualify you from being a woman. You can't have it both ways. Or maybe you can have it both ways, but that sure as hell isn't the right way to go about it.

I don't understand Beatie's relationship to his body and gender either. But forcing "she" pronouns on him is just obnoxious, and shows that you have just as much internalized hatred and intolerance of transgender as anyone else here. This is disappointing.